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Personalized and continuing relationships play a central role in any society. Economists have built upon the theories of repeated games and reputations to make important advances in understanding such relationships. Repeated Games and Reputations begins with a careful...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-09-28
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Happiness is a private matter and individual pursuit; however, public policy does have an important role and can contribute much through various enabling means. This volume discusses the determinants of happiness and presents case studies of how public policy can help...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-08-25
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This book provides a comprehensive description of the state-of-the-art in modelling global and national economies. It introduces the long-run structural approach to modelling that can be readily adopted for use in understanding how economies work, and in generating...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-08-03
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Despite its utmost importance, the issue of industrial development has been largely neglected in the literature for the last few decades. The authors have conducted comparative case studies between Chinese and Japanese industries.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-07-11
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This book examines how Japan should cope with fiscal challenges, as demands on the budget from an ageing society have necessitated the reigning in of public debt and the revamp of the pension and healthcare systems. It combines insights from academic research with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-07-04
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The book deals with economic issues related to income and wealth among individuals, regions and countries. It presents a general theory with endogenous capital, knowledge and preference changes for an economic system with heterogeneous households, multiple sectors,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-06-28
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Procyclicality of the financial system is a feature of any normally functioning economy. However, procyclicality can sometimes become 'excessive' leading to undesired effects on the real economy. The challenge that this volume addresses is to define 'excessive' and to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-06-28
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Procyclicality of Financial Systems in Asia
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What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice?What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own? These questions and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-06-15
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This book incorporates human psychology into economic analysis. It constructs a new basic structure model of economic circulation, analyzes the direct relationship between human psychology and economic fluctuation, and provides a framework in which output and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-06-06
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This book examines the economic policies available to a head of state and addresses how best to measure the success of these tools. It surveys policies currently used as well as those that may not be appreciated for their national security application, and examines case...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-31
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Major theoretical approaches stress the superiority of privately-owned over state-owned companies without addressing how corporate performance should best be measured. This book investigates performance of both private and state-owned, applying factor analysis to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-26
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In this book, John P. Burkett presents microeconomics as an evolving science, interacting with mathematics, psychology, and other disciplines and offering solutions to a growing range of practical problems. The book shows how early contributors such as Xenophon, Ibn...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-04-20
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This book explores the process of organization and systems design. Researchers will glean radically different epistemological and ontological perspectives; designers will acquire entirely different intellectual tools, principles and mechanisms of design and managers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-12
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In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn its back on...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2006-04-04
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This book makes available for the first time in English a substantial part of Otto Neurath's economic writings. The essays and small monographs translated here extend from his student years to his last ever finished piece. They chart not only Neurath's varied interests...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-03-03
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The world's agenda of international cooperation has changed.The conventional concerns of foreign affairs, international trade, and development assistance, are increasingly sharing the political center stage with a new set of issues. These include trans-border concerns...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-02-23
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Income Distribution was written primarily as a textbook intended for undergraduate economics majors. The material, however, is treated with sufficient rigor to meet the needs of first year graduate students also. The book may also serve the needs of sociologists and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-02-02
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Luigi Einaudi made an outstanding contribution to economics during his long career as economist, historian and policy-maker. This book makes an important selection of his works available in English for the first time. Topics covered include: taxation of consumption...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-01-30
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Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk is the first book that systematically analyzes how catastrophe models can be used for assessing and managing risks of extreme events. It focuses on natural disaster risk, but also discusses the management of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-01-27
Collection :
Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security
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This is a book on stochastic dynamic macroeconomics from a Keynesian perspective. It shows that including Keynesian features in intertemporal models considerably contributes to resolve major puzzles arising in the context of the Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) model....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-01-19
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